Archive for May, 2016

By Joe McDaniel For a short time the Lake Worth name was carried overseas on a cargo ship. This was at the end of World War I when the Lake Worth community was little more than the lake, several lake houses and scattered farms and ranches. The USS Lake Worth hauled cargo for the United States Navy from 1918 to […]

By Joe McDaniel Churchgoers say often that a church is not the building, but it is the people who worship there. Methodists in the Lake Worth area kept that in mind in 1937 as they braved the weather to hold their first services outdoors. They met at Mosque Point overlooking the waters of Lake Worth until they could obtain a […]